Esther Kaplan

Esther Kaplan is a radio and print journalist and investigative editor at the Nation Institute. She has written for The Nation, The American Prospect, The Village Voice, and other publications. For more than ten years, she has been co-host of Beyond the Pale, a weekly radio program covering Jewish culture and politics on WBAI/New York, and she produces The Communique, which covers labor and public policy, on WNYE/New York.

She is the author of With God on Their Side (The New Press, 2005), which Ms. Magazine called "a frightening and necessary read."

Check out what Janeane Garofalo, Katha Pollitt, Amy Goodman and others had to say about the book. Read a short excerpt from the Introduction, or an excerpt that appeared in The Nation about Bush's efforts to channel tens of millions of taxpayer dollars to the Christian right.

You can also read transcripts of interviews with Esther on Alternet, Democracy Now, Church & State and BuzzFlash. Or come to one of Esther's upcoming talks.